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June 16, 2007
To Altoona We Go!
As part of his birthday celebration O wanted to go to an Altoona Curve baseball game. They are the Pirates AA team. Despite the facts that the major league Pirates are about 20 minutes away and that O really loves to follow the Pirates, he still likes to watch (in person) minor league baseball better. Strange. But it's his birthday so who am I to judge? :) So anyway, it's off to Altoona (maybe 1.5 to 2 hours away) we go for an evening game and of course dinner at Friendly's first.
This morning I took care of some training. I was very delighted to see when I woke up this morning that my coach wanted me to try some running again today. Jackpot! He suggested a treadmill so that I could stop in the case that something hurt but I went for the high school track instead. In my 15 years of running I've learned at least this - treadmills and I don't get along. :) O joined me for the run. We tried to go to the high school track in our town but realized as we drove up that that wasn't going to work since they were hosting a Relay For Life event. Next we tried the high school north of us but we were again thwarted when we saw that they were resurfacing the track and nobody was allowed in. Bugger! We finally hit gold when we went to the high school south of us. So about 30 minutes and 3 counties (yes - we were in 3 different PA counties this morning!) later we finally started our run.
My instructions were to run for 30-40 minutes and stop if anything was hurting. We ran easy, around and around the track, and while I could feel that my tailbone and hip were a little sore they weren't getting worse and they didn't feel too bad, so I kept going. My hamstring didn't hurt at all and probably the best part of it all was that I felt much more fluid running. My stride was a little more normal - unlike last Tuesday when I just felt really off. I think my chiropractor friend has worked some magic! It will be interesting to see how I feel tomorrow and if I get really sore like I did last time I attempted to run. My feelings is that even if I get a little sore it won't be nearly as bad because as of about 5 hours post run neither my hip or tailbone hurt at all walking around. Very good deal.
After the run I headed to the YMCA to finish the rest of my "run" up in the pool - 35 more minutes of running in the water (1:15 total) and then a swim workout.
500 swim, 300 kick, 500 pull, 200 drill
50,100,150,200,250,300 all w/15 sec rest
200 easy drill
2x150 as 50 easy/50 build/50 fast w/30 sec rest
300 easy
Alas, there is baseball to watch and ice cream to eat. Have a great day everyone!
Posted by beth at June 16, 2007 2:44 PM